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Newsgroups: sci.crypt Path: sparky!uunet!sdl!tal From: tlimonce@drew.drew.edu (Tom Limoncelli) Subject: Re: Secure netnews Message-ID: <f11@drew.drew.edu> Summary: Oh nothing important. I just have this Perl script that I use to generate this stream of posts whenever someone posts the silly suggestion that netnews could be made secure. Keywords: silly automated Sender: tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli) Organization: Drew University - Alumni References: <f10@Warren.MENTORG.COM> <f9@pilot.njin.net> <f8@drew.drew.edu> <f7@Warren.MENTORG.COM> <f6@pilot.njin.net> <f5@drew.drew.edu> <f4@Warren.MENTORG.COM> <f3@pilot.njin.net> <f2@drew.drew.edu> <f1@Warren.MENTORG.COM> <9208182108.AA09132@news.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 23:15:47 GMT Lines: 33 In <f10@Warren.MENTORG.COM> tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli) writes: > And, since all Usenet flame wars ultimately evolve to a prediction of > The End Of The Net or a comparison to Hitler, we can concluded that > this flame has reached its ultimate status. And therefore, it has > reached its natural conclusion. But Tom forgot that flame wars never end on Usenet. In fact, this would be about the time that Peter da Silva would chime in with a bit of truth like: "Then do it. Design and implement secure news. Since TCP isn't entirely secure, you'll have to add some authentication protocol on top of that. Since UUCP is spoofable, you'll need to use it there as well. It's not going to be easy. "If it works we'll all switch over. If it doesn't we'll have learned something. "But you can't get there from here." Doesn't that sound just like him? Tom -- There is nothing wrong with talking to yourself... I met an interesting person that way! -- Tom Limoncelli -- tal@warren.mentorg.com (work) -- tal@plts.uucp (play) "Oh! I thought it was one of those useless demos of everything that a GUI builder could do." -Anonymous person watching demo of Solaris 2.0's graphical tool for managing NIS+